Ruby Rose stirs up some heat down under

The Australian equivalent to America’s Kim Stolz is Ruby Rose, an out lesbianMTV VJ. At close to 6′ tall with dark brown hair and bangs that hang justabove her sparkly green eyes, she is always smiling when in front of thecamera.

The Sydney-based brunette became known outside of herhomeland over the summer when she was spotted holding hands and kissing Jess Origliassoof the twin-pop band The Veronicas, which toured with Disney teens The Jonas Brothers.

Jess’ bisexuality came into question and Ruby was draggedinto the tabloids with her.

Ruby Rose (left) with Jess Origliasso

Most recently, Rose has been “spotted” kissing the“straight” Australia’s Next Top Modelcontestant, Samantha Downie.

Rose (who is only 21) seems unfazed by it, though, and says she’s datingsomeone who isn’t Jess, but won’t comment further on it.

She recently told Australia’sThe Daily Telegraph, “I’m sickof seeing myself in the paper and I’m sure everyone else is sick of seeing meas well, so I’ve grounded myself for two reasons. Hopefully this whole Jessthing will kind of fizzle out. I also want to … just promote my job because Ilove (it). It’s kind of annoying that it overshadows what I’m here for.”

Unfortunately, The Daily Telegraphhas followed Rose almost as closely as USWeekly stalks Lindsay Lohan. Any public outing is fodder for their frontpage.

Rose began modeling when she was 9 years old. “I first started modelingfor that fake grass stuff they invented for playgrounds,” Rose said in anemail interview with AfterEllen.com. “It was great. Then I stopped until Iwas 16.”

To get her gig with MTV in 2007, she had to audition and then compete againstthree other top picks.

“We had to do these ridiculous stunts set out by Bam Marjera!” she explained.Anyone who has seen his hi-jinks in Jackass, or on his own MTV show, Viva La Bam, can guess what Rose had toput up with. The Australian press noted some of the stunts included downing 100shots of beer in 100 minutes, and kissing strangers on the streets of Sydney.

“Having to kiss strangers, like complete randoms down a busy Sydney street [is]another thing that my grandma will be impressed with when she watches it,”she told The Herald Sun.

But she must have handled it well enough, because now she’sinterviewing rock stars. Rose said her favorite interview to date has been withhip-hop group Cypress Hill.

“They were funny and we had trouble filming because we would just laughfor minutes at a time,” recalled Rose.